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I've wrapped up my session at my first session at this year's PASS Summit. My session this Thursday was The Plan Cache Whisperer: Performance Tuning SQL Server [DBA-313]. The session appears to have gone really well and the content has been uploaded to the PASS Summit for download. To provide access to the materials now, the slide deck … Continue reading PASS Summit Session Follow-up: The Plan Cache Whisperer

With today's SQL Server instances, there easily be anywhere from a dozen to a hundred databases on a single SQL Server instance. In fact, on my laptop, I currently have almost two dozen databases and these are just from working on projects. Setup a SharePoint server and add a few sites and you'll easily see … Continue reading Can You Dig It? – Find All Plans for a Database

Each release of SQL Server is chalk full of new features and an assorted amount of bells and whistles. Some of these, like Availability Groups and ColumnStore, are great additions and their introduction includes much fanfare. Among all of those new features, is the occasional little bell which offers us a chance to change how we investigate SQL … Continue reading A Replacement for DBCC IND in SQL Server 2012

Follow the rest of this series at the Can You Dig It? - Plan Cache series introduction post. It’s been a while since the last plan cache series post. In the last few posts, I was focusing on specific attributes. Instead of continuing on that vein, I want to cover a use case that fit … Continue reading Can You Dig It? – Researching Index Scans

A few PASS Summit’s ago, I became interested in the information available in the Plan Cache. As part of that interest, I started digging into the plan cache to find out what is there and available to be pulled out. Some of those investigations led to a few presentations; which have in turn led to … Continue reading Can You Dig It? – Plan Cache Series

Follow the rest of this series at the Can You Dig It? - Plan Cache series introduction post. It’s the eighth post in the plan cache series. I hadn’t expect to take as many days off from this due to the 31 Days of SSIS, but that one had a stricter time table that I … Continue reading Can You Dig It? – Find Estimated Cost

Follow the rest of this series at the Can You Dig It? - Plan Cache series introduction post. She can dig it! D Sharon Pruitt It’s the eighth post in the plan cache series. I took a few days off to start up a new blog series, I had considered holding that series until March … Continue reading Can You Dig It? – Find Estimated RowCounts